Different ship styles and clothing options

  • Hondo Onhaka
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    I think its time SoT got some new ship designs for each ship category. The paintjob only customization has become too bland and boring not to mention all the glowing WoW style clothing and ship customizations. The artbook offers some great ideas Rare has thought of but decided not to implement. The new ship customization options can even be exclusive to pirate legend or captaincy status. I think its high time we got something exciting for ships that can create excitement in the game. The focus on world event bloat should be reshifted to player characters and their ships. We only get reskinned clothing, emporium stuff from the crossovers, and some more paint jobs for the ships that we already have the color combinations of. And no, trinkets do not count. The funny thing is, the NPCs in the Monkey Island have better pirate outfits than the player has, and Treepwood's galleon should have been playable.

    galleon from the artbook

    a sloop idea that's more accurate to timeline than the one we have

    TLDR; we need more ship designs for each category as in alternate designs for those who got bored after years of using the same ships over and over again, about balancing issues, the cannons and masts should stay where they are.

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  • AlienMagi
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    Agree we need a real ship version of the sloop with an enclosed backside, the canopy makes it look like a fishing boat.

  • Hondo Onhaka
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    @alienmagi

    Not only that, it looks like a cog from 1300s. All the ships need some alternate hull designs for us to grind/purchase or simply choose.

  • Myst8457
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    @hondo-onhaka I agree on the ship designs and pirate outfits so many cosmetics bound to NPCs as long as the ships don’t change physically and it’s just cosmetics I’m so down.

  • Hondo Onhaka
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    @myst8457 Yep I was quite surprised when I saw Monkey Island npcs look more piratey than us players. We need proper outfits, bandoliers, and sword belts, with visible weapons when sheathed. As for the ships, the same cannon and mast layouts so the balancing isn't an issue, just different hull design customizations and that's it.

  • FedTed998
    Sailor

    the fact is for the skin they are pumping the emporium with all this shiny stuff that a random boy with parents credit card would buy (i have to find someone older than 17 that have bought the sakura/cherry-tree set), i would love if they come back to add more decent stuff in the normal shop....
    for the ships some assets they have already created the 3D model, interactable, of the spanish galleon (the black pearl and flying dudtchman from POTC, or the LeChuck's ship) so i don't think this could be a problem to add to the game... but, instead the more similar to the english galleon, the one that we have already is less big than this spanish type, maybe they can add it as a 6 man crew or more. maybe they can add mid-size ships, like: Schooner, same crew size as a sloop but is more difficoult to manuvrate and the crew must be composed by 2 players, the spanish galleon for crew of 6, the same asset from the ships of the tall tales, the man-o-war style ship for crew of 8. those 2 ships needs a dedicated servers than the others, it would be bad if a solo sloop have to fight an 8 men crew...

  • Hondo Onhaka
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    @fedted998 I agree, although the new ship types would be too much to ask because of balance issues, I see no reason for them to not offer alternate designs and further customizations for the existing ships. Its a pirate game, the focus should be the ships and the pirates especially after all these years getting next to nothing new for the ships.

  • Reverend Toast
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    If anything some more things will come in the inevitable Sea of Thieves 2... but that will be when it is completely off the Xbox One.

    With how the ships are designed now, is to make the sail management as uniform and streamlined as possible. When you start having Jib sails it will require a different system to make it clear what the angle needs to be set at.

  • PithyRumble
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    @fedted998

    I have the Sakura set...

    @Hondo-Onhaka Agree , best way to do it would be reskins of our currents and not changing positions of anything (including wheel/capstan)

  • FedTed998
    Sailor

    @pithyrumble are you 14 y.o.?

  • PithyRumble
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    @fedted998

    3 decades past that lol

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